The Georgian war minute by minute – August 12

21:11 GMT – Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has accepted the terms for a ceasefire in South Ossetia which were put forward by Russia and France.

19:18 GMT – The leader of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity has welcomed the peace plan proposed by the Russian and French presidents in Moscow on Tuesday.

19:12 GMT – French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili are holding talks in Tbilisi.

19:01 GMT – Georgian government confirms the withdrawal of its troops from the upper part of the Kodori Gorge.

18:10 GMT – Moscow is concerned over Kiev's ‘biased and one-sided position’ on Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its official website.

17:40 GMT – The restoration of the Capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, will take at least two years, said Russian Emergencies Minister Sergey Shoigu.

17:22 GMT – French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Tbilisi to meet with Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili.

08:37 GMT – Finland's foreign minister says that the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is not interested in blaming sides in the Georgian-Russian conflict, and only wants an end to violence.

08:34 GMT – U.S. blocks Russia-NATO Council meeting, according to the Russian envoy to the alliance.

08:22 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, in Moscow on Tuesday, to discuss the situation in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia.

08:00 GMT Russia will have to review its approach towards negotiations on the situation in Georgia, as the leadership in Tbilisi cannot be trusted, according to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.

07:32 GMT Russian special services arrest a senior Georgian foreign intelligence officer. It says he was gathering intelligence on Russia’s military in the North Caucasus and following the movements of the South Ossetian president Eduard Kokoity. According to the FSB he is the deputy director of the Georgian Foreign Intelligence Service.

02:01 GMT Abkhazian troops have begun an operation to pull the Georgian military out of the upper part of the Kodori Gorge.

01:46 GMT Russia has rejected a draft resolution on Georgia-South Ossetia conflict, introduced by France at the UN Security Council meeting.